What's the next step? where can i go from not falling into fatalistic or nihilistic. Are we doomed by evolution to be seeing the world in a opaque manner. Are we going to be biased, and have poor judgment. Are we all in bound by our conscious and poor free will. Even though evolution has made us poor and seemingly inadequate wet robots, I now see clearly there is a next step. Not some hoity toity spiritual journey in search of mystical powers or deities. No I don't have any requirement for any of those magic or the infantile god. I am clear what we need is rational thinking. Just as much as possible.
I know it is not something different from what all humans do. We all try to be rational. As pinker says when you say something to me- you are trying to convince me with an argument- that's rational thinking. It seem we have been rational beings for millions of years. So what different now? what's new? .Well nothing is new, i just think I know i am influenced by biases is clearer to me. All my emotions are fleeting seems to be clearer, these things makes it seems being rational may be, just may be slightly easier.
Having convinced myself probably free will is a myth also helps being non-judgmental to certain extent. Don't get me wrong, i still think people should move being more rational and not being stuck in the valley saying, I am what I am.
I am sure part of conscious being is to produce motor movements. I agree with the hypothesis, which also have experimental evidence movements emerge for a context for a particular movement. You hardly have to know how- the movement will emerge. basically you have poor control over your movement emergence. But you can practice and make the movement better- from our walking to writing. Likewise, I seem to be convinced our thoughts emerge, for a context, for a goal. The emergence, I don't think I have any control. But I think I can practice and have some control over it.
I was not sure what I wanted to practice, what was the goal of the practice, now it seems being rational. It may be true we want to practice being a good human, a loving human, but i have trouble defining what's a good human. I see, leaders who some considered to be good and others to be the incarnation of pure evil. I see one mans god as another mans demon or Satan, so if gods cannot be good in everyone's book- well you get the idea. It seems being critical thinker is the condition to aspire.
Well to being a critical thinker I think my influence of affect can be reduced. I suppose being angry, easy to judgmental, tribalism can all can be reduced and i can train myself. The other part of critical thinking- education can be easy to acquire, hopefully than emotions. Hopefully it works.
The second part being loving, I think is and seems to be vital. I have never tried to be loving to anyone, i just be. I think most of us are loving when we are with children. They can bring the best in us. Well it brings the best in me. I think that is because intuitively we believe they don't have free will. So it comes naturally to being loving towards them. Probably I should use the same rationale to being loving towards people I usual hate- you know the idiots who swindle the patients, the ethically malleable spineless toad, the bigot who thinks his caste is superior, the moron who thinks because I told them god is a joke I am going to hell or poor soul, well, the list goes on. Please note I still think of them like that- its just that i should be angry - I should think well he is still human that is all. Why waste time in anger, my anger is not going to change them, but my rational thinking can find a way to make them less vile. You may ask who gave you the right to judge them. They might think you are the horrible person, well it is true. I judge them because it is the ethical thing to do. They judge me because they think it is the ethical thing to do. So no issue. Have I changed- well no, but I am hoping to. Hoping i can. well, I am sure i will in due course of time- well ask me in a year.
Love
Hariohm
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